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EL PASO DAILY HERALD SATURDAY. NOVEMBER 4. 1899.THE DAILY HERALDTURDAY. KOVEMEER 4 1899Published Every Evening-. ExceptSundayBY THEHerald News CompanyEL PASO. TEXAS.LITTLE PLAZA.TELETHON K 116.An Independent- RepublicanNEWSPAPER.Rigid Enforcement of Existing LawaIs the First Step Toward Mu-nicipal Reform.H. D. Slater Editor andGeneral ManagerHiNRY L.Capell Business ManagerEntered at the pestofflce at El Paso. Texasfor transmission through the malls at secondclass rates.TERMS OFDaily one year" six months..." three " ..one "Weedy one year.." six months.." three " ...SUBSCRIPTION .7.003-501.76.00S.O01.00ADVERTISING RATES.Kates of advertising in the Dally or WeeklyHerald will be made known upon applica-tion at the business office. Those who pre-fer can have a representative of the businessdepartment call upon them.who will quotepricesZand make contracts for space. Calltelephone No. 115.Classified advertisements or locals ten10) cents per line for first insertion and fivecentl for each additional uneraun.Bpecil rates upon flve hundred (600) or onehousand:(1000) lines Ifof local to be used inone month will be furnished upon applica-tion. 3T CARRIER.ine Daily Hbam is deliverer oy carrierla El Paso. Texas. Juares Mexico and at theKl-Paao smelting works at fifteen cents (16c)per week or sixty cents (60c) per month.subscribers falling to get the Hzbald re-gularly or promptly should call at the officeor telephone No. 116. All complaints will re-ceive prompt attention.TO ADVERTISERS.In order to insure proper changes in advertising copy for-same should be at tne dustness office not later than 10 a. in.POLITICS AS A DISEASE."Hussy" used to be a word of endearment and of compliment implylnnothing unpleasant. It meant simplyhousewife a pretty word of good reputeIt must have been a child of 111-lavoredparentagelwho gave the prize answerto the Question of the degradation ofthis word. Upon being asked why theword "hussy" has come to bear opprobrium and to signify a woman or lowdegree he answered that "he supposedof the I housewives badbeen such miserable failures."Something of that sort haso.fTart.ri thn standing of the wordmira Tt used to be only anhonorable- term.'-' and a student"politics" was admitted upon the sameni.no uiih th student of history ofphilosophy and of natural ecienoeThe word now too often-carries with itrioinn. nf :th ward-heeler the beerjoint primary the bribe taker theunscrupulous demagogue the dishonestbillot-and last and not least importantthe inefficient and wastelul publicservice.What is the reason for this? Whyshould the word Never carry a suggestion of the Idisrepu table? It is a pity.but it is true D What istbefiremedythan?It is -antiseptic treatment.Inl treating a festering wound thefirst thing to do is to remove all diseased parts and cleanse the placethoroughly.QThen apply your antiseptic givefnature a chance and she willdn th rst. To purif J politics re-aaove the Jspoils system there is thegerm of disease and cleanse the civilservice. Then apply the antiseptic asystem -based cn speolal education andpure merit as aiprerequislte for publicoffice and nature will do the rest.A writers in the November Forumcuggests-that the system that controlsthe army and navy ought to controlthe civil ' service. He wouldhave special education for candidatesoriginally selected from among appli-cants successful inf competitive exami-nation. He would foster a spirit of hon-or and loyalty in public servants andwould retire those long in honorableservice upon a pension." Politics" says he "is the procur-ing of votes in payment for offices.Were the offices removed from thisfield politics would soon come tomean something else; and anythingelse would be an improvement." Heays the scheme would pay just as Itis better to have tbe staff officers ofthe army and navy control the businessof those bureaus rather tbanto give these departments into thehands of professional politicians ap-pointed for party services. He citesthe postofficetdepartment as a good in-stance of non-political and highly ef-nUrt. administration and uses thepresidential postmasterBhlps to illus-trate the evils of the spoils system.As to the practicability of the anti-septic treatment for the political gan-grene are we willing to admit thatthe political boss must always rule theintelligent voter?Are we willing to ad-mit that Igcorance is power dishon-esty the bestpolicy? Or are we readyto declare our independence?A. philosopher has arisen whothinks he can prove thst the earth isflat. He will have his cult a magazineorgan and.no doubt a place in the con-grees of the history of religions atParis. He will be more prominent thana congressman and lees than a pugilist.His fame is assured and if he will goon the lecture platform be can travelaround-tbe globe on his proceeds. Theaforesaid philosopher and his prospec-tive globe trot remind one of anothercurious anomaly. Bryan goes aboutthe eountry preaching the gospel ofbard times to people who travel far byrail and crowd by thousands into theball where the attraction is presentedpaying over their dollars like littlemen dollars out of filled pocketsspent to procure amusement where-upon Bryan pockets from two hundredto twenty-five hundred dollars for hispains and goes elsewhere to tell thesegenerous alms-givers how bad off theyare. There is a flaw in the logic ofthese two demagogues but it nevershakes their own belief in their abilityto hoodwink the plain people.Impref sed with the fact that therewas an increase of 25 per cent in theChicago death rate for diphtheria andscarlet fever during the month of Sep-tember as compared with August Dr.W. S. Christopher sets up a theorythat inasmuch as Jhe two monthscloeely resemble each other in climaticconditions tbe greater number ofdeaths must have been due to assembling the children in schools In Sep-tember and he proposes according toan exchange that an examination berequired of all children for evidencesof infectious diseases particularlydiphtheria and scarlet fever whenthey enter school. A similar examin-ation would also be required whenevera child returned to school' after an ab-sence of four days.J2Pupils displayingsymptoms of poor health would alsohave to be examined. Dr. Christo-pher claims that by following thismethod of supervision a considerablyhigher average of public health couldbe attained.Army sureeons at Washington areiavesii?ating a report recei tlv received from Enrland that theBritish army officials have determinedto inoculate all the troops with a recently discovered vaccine as a protection aaainet tvDboid fever. Dr. Sternberg Burgeon general of the UnitedStates army has received a letter ontbe eubject from Dr. A. S. Mulrdeputy director general of theBritish medical service and it is pro-bable that the medical service of theUnited States army will adopt thesame measures of precaution. Thediscovery of an anti-toxin for typhoidfever similar in application and effectto the anti-toxin for diphtheria buldbe a great boon for mankind.The men of Van Horn are mourningand will not be -comforted unless tbeofficials of the Texas & Pacific railroadcontinue in force the present schedule.For years it has been their custom togather at the station and "sit around"until the train passes. The new schedule sends the train through tneirtown at about noon and the time honored custom must be suspended if theprotest they are about to dispatch- tothe general passenger agent does notcause the company to retain tbe oldschedule. Tbe chancre is really distressing to them aa they will now haveno excuse to )spend the evening awayfrom tbe shelter of the family rooftree.Anyone who attempts to keep intouch with current magazine and newspaper literature must be impressedwith tbe increasing interest that is be-ng aroused in things oriental. Chinaand Japan Russia and Corea usurp aconsiderable proportion of tbe space inthe leading magazines. The commercial aspect of tbe questions involvedand tbe Interests of the United Statesconnected therewith are most oftenthe subjects of these articles. Ame-rica's west coast is vitally interested inthese problems and our eyes are setwestward ; looking toward oddlyenougb the "far ea9t."The battleship Texa9 is to be put outof commission owing to needful repairswhich cannot be made because of noavailable appropriation. Anotherreason as given by a naval official isthat all of her long-time men are to beent to tbe Philippine fleet and it ispossible to get men to enlist owingto the regulation which requires themto serve four years. It Is asserted thatthis time there are only abouteighty available men on the receiving-ship Franklin at Norfolk Va. and oth-er vessels need crews badly. Wellthe Texas can rest on her laurels.The Herald occasionally finds itomniscience a bore and deplores thefact that there is no -paper for it toread. But it takes genuine pleasure inreading the letter of its new correspondent from Washington whose firetletter is printed in today's paperpt-niiH.nt. whimsical. irreverent ofmuch that the"dear publlo"dote mostupon the writer betrays his nationali-ty before one reaches the initials "D.O'F." He is Irish to the backbone.Churches on wheels have been inuse for years and now Nebraska has atraveling court house in which circuitcourt Is held at different places. It Isa two-story building placed on four b grailroad trucks and it can be pulledalong the tracks at the rate of sixmiles anjbour. Tbe world is certain ymoving and the next innovation willprobably be a legislature on wheels.The members can thus utilize thewheels now In rv.pl- heas.The Czar of Russia has engagedGeorge Fuller the American trottinghorse expert to teach him how to man-age a trotting horse. Thus we ex-pand. Americans are teaching some-body bow to do something in nearlyevery country on the globe.London theater-goers have con-demned the so-called "society play"and demanded "tbe drama of themiddle classes." Does this mf an thattbe old-time melodrama is ags in to assume the sovereignty of the stage?Potato Pingkee of Michigan hasa rival in an Alamogordo lawyer whohas made 8606 profit on thirty acres ofpotatoes. There is nothing 60 good asdiversification of crops. Even law aidtubers thrive together.A SON of Charles Dickens has beenappointed a rabbit inspector of NewSouth Wales. Yet the world persistsin claiming that tbe 60ns of great mennever attain greatness.THE last mule branded at FortWorth for the British-Boer war wasnumbered 6261. Anything else Texascan supply brothers?In event of the fatal termination ofVice-President Hobart'B illness Wil-liam P. Frye of Maine becomes vice-president 1One hundred thousand Americanshave crossed tbe Atlantic this season"Who set that trap?" cried Johnny BullA-roaring like a lion;'t did it" brave old Joubert said"To march you on to Zlon."WASHINGTON LETTERDewey and His China Dog the Admlral's New - Home The SchleySampson Controversy Needs DIsinfecting An Indian Anglo Saxon From . Beloochistan RegretsOur Corruption of- the EnglishLanguage the Philippine Questlon in Congress.Special Correspondence of the Herald.Washington D. C. Nov 1.In spite of the fall -elections and Mr.Jones of Toledo the predominant interest in Washington this week isnaval. Next week Dewey will probably be classified in the Washingtonmind with the monument presidentBDeaker. national museum Gen Jackson's two-legged horse and other timehonored obiects of interest to tbetransient visitor but thisweek he isn't. The topical eon? men at the theatersmake him a leading feature. One hasa clever skillet regarding "Our nobleYankee seaman Dewey and his Chinadog Chop Suey" and tbe advisabilityof putting everything for which noother use can be found Into aforesaidChop-Suey. The dog is really named"Bob" but that does not rhyme as welland is after all a mere detail. Another took advantage of the admiral'svisit to a burlesque "Cyrano deBergerac to compliment his Romannose by a stanza to the general effeotthat the thing which put to flight ourSpanish foes was the Dewey nose.The admiral having at last seleotedhis house the real estate owners andagents in the northwest are no longersleeping on tenter hooks whateverthat maybe. The place selected is theFitch house at the intersection of Con-necticut and Rhode Island avenueswhich is about the focal point of theregular Sunday parade of yoangwomen in their prettiest for the benefit of the concomitant young men. Themansion is comparatively newand quite modern and comfortable being consequently devoidof legends or traditions. Theonly particular story about It was thatit was that it was once the scene of thearrest for attempted burglary of"Dago Joe" Conosci. Conosci occupiesa comfortable niche in history as theonly Italian heavy ; weight whoeverwon an important prize fight. However in point of fame the admiral andthe house oan average up with mutualadventnge. Being a .. greatseaman of the ultra-modern type theadmiral's first act before raising hisflagjwae coaling his new abode.Admiral Schley divided the honorsof the Dewey parade with his superiorofficer. Being a local man or nearlyso he is a great favorite with all thatpart of Washington lying outside thenavy department building. He hasbeen made a master mason taking tbefirst three decrees of masonry at onceby special dispensation. It Is said thatthe department squabble of Sampsonv. Schley will break out before con-gress again this winter and in anaggravated form. The Sampsonclique is provided with a lot of newammunition J mostly mud. Whateverthe -merits of the controversy maybe and doubtless Admiral Schleyis not Dewey Nelson and St. Ceciliarolled into one Sampson could probab-ly learn something from the old seastory of the parrot that talked toomuch on occasion. The army peopleare not pleased with the new Shafter-Chadwlck embrogllo he Is diligentlyfostering. This ' is not altogether be-cause 01 anection ior ouaner uumore on account of general esprlt-de-corps. A8 a coiocei recenuy puiuteuout it is only fair to assume that theInfantry and artillery under Shafterat least cooperated with Cbadwick Incompelling Toral's surrender.i i ii Afa.aThe delegates from the InternationalCommercial congress now In sessionIn Philadelphia have been in town.The congress represents 40 to 50 na-tions real and alleged and the dele-gates are a mixed lot. The Transvaalman is flocking by himself mostly withoccasional assistance from the German and French delegates. The scenicmember Is Muzafr-ed-dla from BritishBeloochistan. Arrayed In a pink tur-ban and kaleidoscopic raimenthe adds a touch of gorgeous color toan otherwise bald and unattractive delegation. He is 50 or thereaboutscopper colored and an Oxford manwith views of his own. One of theseis a deep-seated belief and pride in the"Anglo-Saxon" ' and . his des-tiny. Being Eaglisb speaking acda British subject Muzafr-ed-din (spell-ing not guaranteed) classes him-self as an "Indian Anglo-Saxon" incontradistinction to the Irish andScotch Anglo Saxons. I have alwaysbeen a professional Anglo-Saxon my-self but Muzafr-ed-din can give meoards and spades and tbe rest of thedeck and bluff me out on a bob-tailflush. He has a curious taste in"Americanisms" and regrets the cor-ruption of the language in tbe UnitedStates. He believes the conflict withRussia is to come soon over tbe push-ing of a branch railroad down throughPersia or Belooohlstan to give Siberiaa deep water outlet on the Arabian seaor Persian Gulf but expects India andbrave little Beloochistan" to makemince meat of tbe CossacksCongressmen are beginning to cometo town. All without exception areworking on Philippine measures.From present outlooks tbe crop orbills in that line both of the kind secreted by tbe repiesentatives and sen-ators themselves and the "introducedby request" variety will be enormousand reoord smashing. Years ago outIn Ohio we tried to amend the stateconstitution. Everybody was agreedthat ohanges should be made and therewas unanimity after a fashion as to thechanges. But every politician in uniowas resolved to go down into history asthe author of some important sectionof the state constitution so that futuregenerations might point with prideand more or lets awe to that sectionand say: "See that clause regardingthe civil rights of St. Bernard pups?Well Jim Stiggins he's our representative wrote that and be crowdedit through single handed in spite of allopposition." With several hundredJim Stlgginses determined to leavetheir mark on the new constitution itfailed utterly and.Ohio has been wor-rying along on the old one ever since.This is about congress s present programme for disposing of the Philip-pine question. Everybody means toleave a permanent impression of hisstatesmanship in our future policy andthe pressure of Tom Reed being re- Jmoved the house will probably exhibitundue resiliency. Bills sketched sofar cover almost every possible ideaand a number not too practicable. No-body has as yet planned to lump Flori-da in and transfer the whole boi'ingback to Spain but I think some of tbeNew England members are still out oftown. As a matter of fact we purloin-ed Florida without a declaration ofwar.The contractionists are few andnoisv. the expansionists many andditto. Both are oppesed to Gen. Otisone because he is cruel to the misledTagalo and tbe other because he isn'tGen. Brooke will probably come in forhis share of attention. Altogether the prospects for a livelysession of congress are bright.The Venezuelan legation is in a badway. There is no home governmentnow and a New York bank in whichthe consular fees and similar revenuesare deposited has had tbe Venezuelanaccount attached by oreditors sosalaries are a minus quantity. President Andrade is expected to come toWashington soon to study out how itall happened and write a prospectusfor his coming counter-revolution.D. O'F.NEW YORK LETTERThe Coming Elections WholesaleFraudulent NaturalizationCharged'-Tammany ExtravaganceDemocratic Corruption-Helen Gould vs. CongressmanElect Roberts the Horse ShowChanges In the HarperFirm.Special corresponden ce of the Herald.New York. Nov. 1. New York'selection this year na? little Importanceoutside the Btate. A number of highjudicial positions are to be filled butthese have been lost elfht of in theoontests in a few electiondistricts which Tammany isparticularly anxious to carry.One of these is the 19th dlstrict in which Croker is makingdesrjerate effort to unseat Robert'.Mazet(Rep. chairman of irelegislative investigating committee that hasrecentlv Incurred the animosity of theTammany boss by uncovering so manydisap-reeable facts about Croker's administration of the city government.Colonization of voters and wholesalefraudulent naturalization by thedemocrats in this district is chargedThe process of naturalization is verysimple indeed. The embryo citizennever aDoears in -.court atall. He is impersonated bydummy who is coached to passthe required examination. The paperswhen obtained are delivered to thefuture "citizen" either in exchangefor bis vote or for $5 or $10 or bothMany are very willing to pay themonev. as the certificates of naturaU-zation or intention to become citizensenable the holder to obtain work onmunictDal Improvements as streetcleaners &c. Gov. Roosevelt has ap-poieted an extraordinary session of thesudreme court to be held in this cityNov. 20 to try violations of the registration and primary laws.One of the campaign documents circulated by Tammany declares that: now under democratic ruie ot tne city"the personal liberty of every citizenin tbe metropolis is respected. Thespy svstem is gone. Fallen women arenot persecuted and hunted like widebeasts and tbe story of their unfortunate condition heralded far and wildthereby corrupting the morals of tbeinnocent children in our homes. Theliquor traffic is now regulated in amanner that gives least offense to tbepeople and tbe result is less drunken-ness and fewer arrests." Tbe fact isthat immorality and law-breaking isopen and wide-spread and that the ar-rests are few simply because the pol-ice to an extent never before knownare in the pay of the law-breakers.The obalrmao of the republican coun-ty committee charges that pool roomsalone have paid Tammany $120000 inthe past year for eleotlon purposes.The old publishing house of Harperfc Brothers is now dominated by theMcClures and many changes havefollowed the installation of the newmanagement. Mrs. Margaret E. Sang-ster has resigned from the editorshipof the Bazar and gone over to theLadles' Home Journal. Mrs. IsabelSirong a step daughter of thelate Robert Louis Stevensonis one of the new corners. Hen-ry G. Payne has superseded Henry Loom is i Nelson aseditor of Harper's Weekly; thelatter will continue to do special workfor the paper. It is rumored here thatthe changes were necessitated by thefact that tbe banking firm of J. P.Morgan & Co. a large creditor of theHarpers insisted upon a differentmanagement of the firm. Harper'sRound Table has been discontinued al-together. -KThe republican managers of Mr.Mazet's campaign are circulatingthousands of postal cards on which isprinted the following: " 'I am workingfor my pocket all the time' RichardCroker before the Mazet committee.The number of city employees hasbeen increased by tbe present Tamma-ny administration nearly 10000.' Tes-timony of Gaorge McAneny before theMazet Committee. The increaseof salaries under tbe present Tammanyadministration has amounted to nearly$2000000. In the 19th assembly dis-trict the assessed valuation of propertyhas been increased under tbe presentTammany ad ministration from $92000.-000 to $112000 000 and the tax rate hasbeen increased to $2.48." 'New York is a city of queer businessoccupations but a Chinese laundrymanin St. Mark's plaoe just off the Bow-ery has recently started an altogethenew "side line." He keeps on hand alarge assortment of collars collected byhim from unoalled for "wash" at theplaces of his fellow laundrymen andfrom this miscellaneous assortmenthe supplies clean collars Inplace of those wilted at the gamblingtables or in tbe dance halls on theeast side. Be claims to do a largebusiness sometimes receiving a dollarfor a clean collar from some lucky"sport" who wants to better his ap-pearance. Miss Helen Gould has taken hold ofthe campaign against the MormonCongressman Roberts with all thevigor and liberality that invariablycharacterizes . her work whether inpeace or In war. She has already giv-en $6000 to the league for social ser-vice and the president of the league.Rev. Josiah Strong told your corres-pondent this week that he purposed todistribute over 1000000 pamphlets inan endeavor to cause such widespreadhostility to tbe polygamous congress-man that it would be Impossible forhim to take bis seat.A newspaper report has it that Wil-liam K. Vanderbilt has warned thepublic not to build a house at all likethe one he contemplates. The planafrom the foundation to the slate roofhave been copyrighted. . Mr. Vander-bilt however has taken a more effect-ive means than tbe copyright law toprevent a duplication of his new man-sion; he intends to spend between $500.000 and $1000000 on it.One of the very worst aots of the present mayor of this city is his approvalof tbe new building code approved bythe municipal assembly. Besidesopening the way to unsafe acd faultyconstruction generally the code ac-cording to the Charity Organizationsociety practically nullifies everythingthat has been accomplished in the lastten years towards tenement-house reform.9 wThe glory of the horse show is notapparently to grow less with years.Old exhibitors pass away but new mentake their places and the show con-tinues to be one of tbe amusementsthat society heartily supports. Thisyear's show opens on Nov. 13 andalready the list of entries numbers276; 60 of these are new comers Rich-ard Croker being among the latter.Tbe New York State Medical association last week passed a resolutionapproving tbe Spooner national quarantine bill providing for a nationalhealth bureau under tbe treasury de-partment. This bill has also been endorsed by the New York board oftrade and transportation.Tbe formal opening of the Zoological Garden in Bronx Park took placelast week. This promises to become oneof the largest "zoos" in the world.The garden covers 261 aores and thecollection of specimens will now be ac-tively carried on.Five large ocean steamers carryingnearly 2200 cabin passengers arrived atNew York on Sunday. This was thebusiest day the customs Inspectorsever had and with such a crowd therewas a great deal of delay and grumbling on the part of tbe passengers.It is now said that the trial of thefamous Molineaux case will begin Nov.6th. D. T. P-Used by British Soldiers in Africa.Capt. C. G. Dennison is well knownall over Africa as commander of theforces that captured the famous rebelGalishe. Under date of Nov. 4 1897from Vryburg Bechuanaland hewrites: ''Before etartintr on tbe lastcampaign I bought a quantity of Cham-berlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoearemedy which I used myself whentroubled with bowel complaint andbad given to. my men and in everycase it proved most beneficial." Forsale by all druggists.A Frightful BlunderWill often cause a horrible burnscald cut or bruise. Bucklen's ArnicaSalve the best in the world will killtbe pain and promptly heat it. Curesold so es fever sores ulcer boilsfelons corns all skin eruptions. Bestpile cure on earth. Only 26 cts. a box.Cure guaranteed. Sold by Irvin & Co.drug store.1